Midwest Viking Festival, Green Bay
Midwest Viking Festival Green Bay 2023 is in the books!
It was a GLORIOUS weekend! The weather was perfect, the demonstrations were magnificent, the food was excellent!
I attended as a ceramics demonstrator, not a cook, this weekend. Sadly, I missed the firing schedule so I didn’t have much pottery this weekend to sell, but I did sell a lot of cookbooks. I also don’t tend to take a lot of photos as I’m busy demonstrating. I’ve got to hire a photographer for events to take lots of photos of me and the husband.
Chris The Magnificent was with me this weekend demonstrating Hnefatafl, Fidchell, and 12 Man Morris. Lots of excellent games were played! I’d like to thank Beth & Charles Knutson over at historicgames.com for the game boards! We’ll definitely be stocking those for in person shows!
We arrived on Thursday afternoon to set up, but we don’t have a tent. Yet. It will eventually get ordered, but we don’t have quite enough funds for that. Yet. We’ll probably get a fly and some more period correct tables first. And more sheepskin. Possibly a cowhide.
I’ve got a list of ceramics to build for this coming holiday season:
50 1 pound loom weights
24 tumblers
24 saggy bottom bowls
6 cooking pots with lugs & lids
4 pitchers
12 tiny pots/salt pots/horde pots
12 each of lamps (post, pinch, flat, and cup)
6 big garden gnomes
24 Gnomix small gnomes
Other projects for the holiday season:
Aprons
Grocery bags
Linen kitchen cloths
New recipes
I’m working on the Kindle version of MUVC 2023. I decided to just go back to the beginning and write it all over again in a format that will be acceptable instead of cutting and pasting. That’s going to take a lot of typing. The new book will have both formats coming out at the same time. Possibly in about 18 months. It’s a lot of work to get all that stuff researched, tried out, typed up, and vetted.
I’m still working on the Patreon and member areas for the website. Only so many hours in a day!
GOOD FEAST!
